Wide Area Surveillance

HiPER STARE™

Pixia's revolutionary ability to access and disseminate wide area surveillance data from both airborne platforms and ground systems is critical as the amount of data being collected dramatically increases.

Pixia applies its unique software-based solutions to one of the most challenging issues facing the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community: that of managing huge datasets collected by highly sophisticated space, airborne and ground-based sensors. Operations like these are being conducted worldwide and produce massive amounts of data that must be organized and made readily-available globally.

HiPER STARE™, (formerly known as nui WAS Encoder and nui WAS Server), ingests individual sensor frames into logical containers and serves them up via a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A major benefit of containerizing these frames is the dramatic reduction in the quantity of individual physical files. The server retrieves any of the individual frames on disk at extremely high speeds, enabling not only many concurrent requests, but also complex queries requiring random access at the storage level. Only the desired viewport into the actual large frames are served up based on the client's request, thereby greatly reducing the required bandwidth. The data is served as either frame-based data or stream-based data. In the case of frame-based data, intra-frame compression such as JPEG-2000 is supported by the server, while stream-based data is stored using inter-frame base compression such as MPEG. The formats that are supported by the server are standards-based and interoperable across the enterprise. The communication to the server from the client is HTTP-based with an open interface allowing any clients to connect to the server, including thin clients.